From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 19:54:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AA0637B404 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:54:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19999 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2002 03:25:05 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-136-17.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.136.17) by smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 16 Jan 2002 03:25:05 -0000 Received: from mother.wastegate.net (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B63E48425; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:25:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "soralx@cydem.zp.ua" Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:27:09 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <151190568.20020113221904@cydem.zp.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: slow console Message-Id: <20020116032516.8B63E48425@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:19:04 -0700, soralx@cydem.zp.ua wrote: > If somebody has something like Pentium-166 or slower, you can see > that console in FreeBSD works really slowly. For example, launch > MidnightCommander(mc), press and hold the 'Tab' key. You'll see that > when it changes between panels, the command line doesn't change > appropriately (when it is in different directories). Then try the > same in Linux - it works excellent. Or, try `ls -alF /dev` in the > both systems - in Linux it works much faster (considering that it > shows 'em in color!). Why? What can I do to expedite the console? > P.S.: sorry for my English :) i dont know- i ran freebsd 4.0 on a 486dx4-133 with 28 megs of ram, and everything ran perfectly from the console, aside from taking a while from compiling a kernel --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message